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Arafat appointed him four months ago following intense international pressure, but he was reluctant to allow him real power.

He was intense and bespectacled, and often wore an old Army jacket.

But over the years he's come to understand how the one influences the other, even when he manages to get away from work and head to his studio in his Georgian Bay cottage for an intense bout of for-Hirschberg-only painting.

But you can't do this and keep "anti- Semitism" as a term of intense moral condemnation.

Mr. Greenberg's most intense interest, though, is reserved for the Democrats, who he believes can break the country's political stalemate by offering a set of ideas that reach beyond their base.

In the event, Margaret, under intense public pressure and facing fierce opposition from the Church of England, announced on October 31 1955 that she would not wed the divorced Townsend.

Although the battles are fairly bloodless, they are intense and frequent -- and do include brutalities such as decapitations).

This one is for Christmas Day 1872: "It was an intense frost.

It was: ‘Hey, what the hell is going on over there?What the hell are we in for?’” Kerry’s reaction to these discussions was intense and precipitate.

But the residue of the war remained—he had nightmares, at times so intense that he’d wake up screaming, leap out of bed, and slam into walls—and there was now a life to be constructed.

He was no longer a political loner; he was, finally, part of a distinct, bipartisan, and emotionally intense group: the Vietnam combat veterans in the United States Senate.

Steven Griles, deputy director of the Department of the Interior, has attracted intense criticism for his close ties with the industry he helps regulate.

Her campaign has left Mr Hoon under intense pressure to resign.

Don't really want to go down this path becuase they are intensely personal, but what else is there to do? Decision made.

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